Mets don’t deliver on field, but they do in ratings

The New York Mets’ season finale Sunday against the Florida Marlins got a 7.26 household rating, SNY’s highest for the season despite TV competition from the NFL. The Mets’ playoff hopes were dashed in a 4-2 loss to the Marlins at Shea Stadium.

The postgame also established a season high of 1.35 household rating.

Pete Dougherty

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Listened to this game on XM while on the road. Unfortunately, XM did not include the post-game ceremony in it coverage, and went to its standard replay of baseball talk following the game’s conclusion. I was within range to pick up WFAN for the post-game ceremonies, and despite some poorly timed bursts of static, managed to hear most of the good stuff. It was interesting to listen to this, then watch it on replay when I got home. I told my son that as Seaver and Piazza walked off the field, the stadium’s lights were turning off. Then, as they closed the gate, fireworks shot off. Well, this “theater of the air” description was rendered less impressive when we watched the replay, and realized it was still daylight while the lights were turned off! It was impressive nonetheless, and i thought playing the Beatles’ “In My Life” was a neat touch to say goodbye to Shea.